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From: Patricia Tidmarsh <>
Subject: [CROWNOVER] Quote from Pension of Robert Covenhoven - 1755 NJ - 1846 PA
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 15:45:53 -0400 (EDT)

>From the Pension file of Robert Covenhoven

A letter answering an inquiry

QUOTE

While residing in Fort Muncy, Northumberland County, PA, Robert
Covenhoven enlisted in the autummn of 1776, served as private in Captain
Cookson Long's company, ColonelsJames Murray's and Potter's Pennsylvania
regiments, was in the battles of Trenton and in Princeton in which he
assisted in capturing three hundred Hessian prisoners, the marches to
Shanks Mills near the mouth of Millstone River, where they took from the
enemy three hundred wagons loaded with plunder and forage and was
discharged after having served four months, then returned to his home in
Pennsylvania. He volunteered in 1777, served as private, in Captain
William Hepburn's company under Colonel Plunkett in the Pennsylvania
troops, was appointed "guide" to Colonels Hunter, Brodhead and Hartly on
scouting parties and [??oTeases] on
thefrontier betwee Sunbury, Muncy, Jenkins and Wyoming Forts, assisted in
the work upon Fort Muncy, was in the battles of
Short Hills, Ash Swamp and other skirmishes, in one of which Robert
Covenhoven alone survived massacre by Indians and was discharged after
having served more than two years on this tour.

Robert Covenhoven was allowed pension on his application executed
September 5, 1832, while a resident of Mifflin Township, Lycoming County,
Pennsylvania.

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